TallPaddy
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Favourite CUFC match: Arsenal away Fa cup
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Post by TallPaddy on Apr 6, 2024 5:46:04 GMT
Harding way, which is near the carlton arms. Just abut equidistant from United and Histon but very much closer to City; who were still, just about, the bigger club at the time.
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Post by mlb on Apr 6, 2024 5:54:17 GMT
31.27 miles as the crow flies. Bowthorpe maternity hospital Wisbech. I resisted the pull to the dark side and refused to follow the scum who were 18 miles away.
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Post by cufcdubailoyal on Apr 6, 2024 6:26:53 GMT
i was born in the Evelyn Nursing on Trumpington Road back in the summer of 69. So that must be 3 miles away from the Abbey as the crow flies.
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Post by harryhabin on Apr 6, 2024 6:30:08 GMT
Mill Road Maternity hosp and lived in the Chesterton area, Closer to City who were just starting to be overtaken by the 'upstarts' from across the river but my dad would take me to watch both clubs on alternate Saturdays. Always wondered what would have happened if City had taken up the offer to apply to join the league back in the day but who cares now. I used to look forward to getting the light blue on a Saturday evening to see the caricatures of the United and City fans who were either happy, sad or nonplussed depending on the days results. How they got that paper out so quickly I'll never know. Happy days.
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Post by duffpaddy on Apr 6, 2024 6:59:05 GMT
Mill Road for me. Lived in various streets off Mill Road before moving to Chesterton.
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nickpom
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Post by nickpom on Apr 6, 2024 7:45:28 GMT
The closest sports ground to my birthplace is the St Lawrence cricket ground at Canterbury, which was half a mile away. In my defence, east Kent had no football teams worth mentioning, and I moved to Cambridge at the age of five...
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Post by spartacus on Apr 6, 2024 7:51:22 GMT
I was born at mill road. I wonder if anyone knows that they were born in Cambridge while the Us were playing at the abbey?
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onlyluke92
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Post by onlyluke92 on Apr 6, 2024 8:11:46 GMT
Team Addenbrookes!
I was born at 5pm, we lost 1-0 at home to charlton a few hours later.
My friend born 3 days before me was born at pretty much the same time the first ever premier league games kicked off
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shubs
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Post by shubs on Apr 6, 2024 8:41:57 GMT
Born in Camden Town, NW3. My family saw the light and moved to Cherry Hinton when I was 8. My first season supporting the Us (or is that U’s?) was the Bill Leivers promotion season of 72/73, culminating in that classic against Mansfield on the last day.
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Post by abbeyalan on Apr 6, 2024 8:47:09 GMT
270 miles by road now but a lot further then. There wasn't a single mile of motorway, never mind the A14, in those days.
Just over a mile from Holker Street.
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Post by burwellu on Apr 6, 2024 8:49:47 GMT
Another one born in Kent, 73 miles from the Abbey. Saw a lot of Bromley and Crystal Palace games growing up but moved to Cambridge 30 years ago.
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Post by Emperor Delbert Gradius on Apr 6, 2024 8:51:45 GMT
I was born by the river, in a little tent.
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lesj
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Post by lesj on Apr 6, 2024 8:52:49 GMT
What's happened to Ugirl who started the thread Where do Us fans come from?
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Mark of Carnage
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Post by Mark of Carnage on Apr 6, 2024 9:04:23 GMT
Another one born in the old workhouse on Mill Road.
The Abbey Stadium was perhaps in a way further away from there than usual that day as was born in one of the worst blizzards on record in the severe Winter of 62/63 and many of the roads in Cambridge were apparently impassable that day. Can imagine it wasn't easy on foot either though that Winter the river Cam was frozen over and safe to walk on. Quite a contrast from this year's wet Winter without any snow. Doubt the Cam will freeze over again in any of our life times.
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Post by jaydub on Apr 6, 2024 9:36:13 GMT
Mill road maternity for me, my kids at the Rosie. My mum was a midwife at Mill Road for many years, 60’s into 70’s.
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